Academic and postgraduate members
The Centre for the History of Philosophy is an inter-disciplinary centre with members from a variety of different universities and disciplinary backgrounds.
Our members' work and teaching covers a wide range of historical philosophy topics. Find out more about their research interests, work and publications, or get in touch using the details below.
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If you would like to contact us please email Dr James Clarke.
Dr James Clarke
| Name | University | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Dunham | University of Durham | Idealism; Pragmatism; 18th and 19th-century French philosophy. |
| Clare Mac Cumhaill | University of Durham | Women in the history of analytic philosophy (especially Elisabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch); Stumpf; Husserl. |
| Joe Saunders | University of Durham | Ethics and agency in Kant and the post-Kantian tradition. |
| Emily Thomas | University of Durham | History of metaphysics, from the mid 17th to the early 20th-century. |
| Elisabeth Thorsson | University of Durham | The relationship between theology and politics in 17th century Europe; Locke, Damaris Masham, Anne Conway. |
| Sara Uckelmann | University of Durham | History of logic, especially history of modal logic and women in the history of logic. |
| Nick Jones | University of Leeds | Early Modern Philosophy, especially Berkeley; Schopenhauer; Nietzsche. |
| Panayiota Vassilopoulou | University of Liverpool | Ancient, Hellenistic, and Late-Antique Philosophy. |
| Rachael Wiseman | University of Liverpool | Women in the history of analytic philosophy (especially Elisabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch); Wittgenstein. |
| Joshua Fortenzer | University of Sheffield | American Pragmatism (especially John Dewey). |
| Angie Hobbs | University of Sheffield | Ancient Greek philosophy (including its reception in the Renaissance and the First World War), and ethics from classical thought to the present. |
| Komarine Romdenh-Romluc | University of Sheffield | The phenomenological tradition, especially Merleau-Ponty and Fanon. |
| Robert Stern | University of Sheffield | Nineteenth century post-Kantian German philosophy, especially Hegel; K. E. Løgstrup; Martin Luther. |
| Keith Allen | University of York | The early modern period, including Locke and Cavendish, and the phenomenological tradition, particularly Merleau-Ponty. |
| Jim Chamberlain | University of Sheffield | Early modern philosophy with a close focus on Hume, especially his theories of moral judgement, the passions, and automatic causal reasoning. |
| James Clarke | University of York | Rousseau; Post-Kantian practical philosophy, especially Erhard and Fichte. |
| Tim Stuart-Buttle | University of York | 17th to 18th-century philosophy, from Hobbes to Hegel, with a particular focus on the perceived social, political, and moral consequences of mankind's desire for esteem and recognition. |
| Anna Ezekiel (Honorary Fellow) | University of York | Post-Kantian German philosophy; German romanticism; Historical women philosophers, particularly Karoline von Gunderrode. |
| Owen Hulatt | University of York | Spinoza's metaphysics; Hegel's aesthetics and social philosophy; Adorno's critical theory; Althusser's Marxism. |
| Sarah Hutton | University of York | History of early modern philosophy and intellectual history; the Cambridge Platonists (Ralph Cudworth and Henry More); women philosophers (Anne Conway, Margaret Cavendish, Damaris Masham, Emilie du Châtelet). |
| Tom Stoneham | University of York | Berkeley, Margaret Cavendish, Arthur Collier, Richard Burthogge and Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury. |
| Andrew Ward | University of York | Hume and Kant. |
| Pavel Reichl | University of Groningen | Kant and post-Kantian philosophy; Early modern philosophy; Latin American philosophy. |
| Tom Fawcett | Postgraduate researcher, University of Sheffield | Nietzsche and the pre-Socratics. |
| Roderick Howlett | Postgraduate researcher, University of Sheffield | The Frankfurt School; Kierkegaard and Adorno. |
| Barney Riggs | Postgraduate researcher, University of Sheffield | Kierkegaard. |
| Thomas Dowling | Postgraduate researcher, University of York | Critical Theory; Hegel; Lukács. |
Contact us
If you would like to contact us please email Dr James Clarke.
Dr James Clarke